SoCal Cisco Router Gods

Anyone interested in learning more about Cisco routers, switches and voice technologies. Primary goal is to help people get certified (CCNA, CCNP, CCIE, etc) by forming study groups and giving tips.

Meetings will be spread between Los Angeles and Orange Counties to give everyone a chance of attending.

If you can't attend, we'll try to stream the meetings through DimDim (free Flash plugin). We'll also try recording the sessions so you can review.

When you join, please put down what certification you are studying for (if applicable) and your experience. Don't worry, we welcome people of all levels. Also please put down the city you live/work from because I'll try to schedule the meetings for places that are close.

Essential Links

http://www.dimdim.com

Free meeting sharing plugin. Works within your browser and can share video, audio, whiteboards, web pages, etc. Awesome stuff and the price is right!

http://www.gns3.net/

Router simulator for Cisco studies. Think of it as VMWare for your router, PIX and ASA images. This isn't a simulator with toned down commands, this gives you everything. Unfortunately this doesn't emulate switches.

Events coming up

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Past events

  • Defcon 18 - Las Vegas

    Fri, 30 Jul 2010, 00:00 - 02:00 in Los Angeles, United States

    The world's premier hacking and security convention is coming up. We've reserved a two-bed room and will be driving up July 29th (thursday night) and staying until Sunday night.Park your car in Redlands and then we'll pile into my car. Along the way, we'll stop at Costco Victorville to buy bottled water and snacks (you really don't want to pay $3+ for water at the Riv).2 spots left in my carRoom is $99/night split between whoever comes

  • Pasadena - EIGRP

    3-4 Jul 2010 in Pasadena, United States

    With all the time we've spent understanding OSPF, EIGRP should be a piece of cake. In this meetup we'll cover EIGRP neighborships, metrics and the dreaded stuck in active problem.This meetup is open to new members. New members please come 15 minutes early to receive study materials and get set up on your laptop.

  • Orange County - CCNA/CCNP track

    Thu, 1 Jul 2010, 02:00 - 04:00 in Orange, United States

    We return to Orange County with a new CCNA/CCNP track. First meeting will be a get to know each other session and distribution of study materials. We'll also set up your laptops with GNS and router images.Then we'll fire up the routers and start some basic configurations.I'm aiming for a minimum of four people and will give this new Orange location three weeks. If we don't have enough people after three weeks, then I'll kill the location.

  • ACL - Part 1

    Sat, 26 Jun 2010, 01:00 - 03:00 in Pasadena, United States

    In this meetup we will be covering the theory behind ACL standard and extended. We will be doing a couple of labs applying ACL related to Telnet, SSH, OSPF, etc.ACL is one of those topics that you will find pretty often in your Cisco studies so the sooner you master it the better :)Please have GNS 3 installed for this meeting.

  • OSPF Miscellaneous topics

    19-20 Jun 2010 in Pasadena, United States

    We finish up OSPF with some miscellaneous, yet important topics.1. Virtual Links2. Route filtering3. Changing link costs (ie making packets go where they aren't supposed to

  • City of Industry - Multi-area OSPF

    Thu, 17 Jun 2010, 02:00 - 04:00 in City of Industry, United States

    One more (and last try if more people don't attend) try for City of Industry... this meetup we'll cover multiple area OSPF including configuration and LSA types.If you are a new member, please arrive at least 15 minutes early to be set up on GNS and study materials.

  • OSPF - Virtual-links, Summarization and stub areas

    12-13 Jun 2010 in Pasadena, United States

    We continue on our path to OSPF Jedi Mastery. In this meeting, we'll cover advanced topics like virtual-links, summarization and stub areas.This meetup is only open to members who have attended a RouterGods meetup before (meaning no new members for this one

  • DimDim Remote Meetup #1 - Cisco Product Documentation and Craigslist secrets

    Thu, 10 Jun 2010, 02:00 - 04:00 in Los Angeles, United States

    Instead of doing another City of Industry meetup this Wednesday, I'm going to schedule our first ever remote meetup through DimDim. The link to our DimDim room is under the Sponsor's box on the left side of the Meetup room.If you've never done remote chat/WebEx type stuff before, then you'll need the following to make your experience more enjoyable.1. Headset so you can listen and talk2.

  • Pasadena - Multi-area OSPF

    5-6 Jun 2010 in Pasadena, United States

    Our last meeting dealt with single area ospf and the Type 1 and Type 2 LSAs. In this meetup, we will add another area and look at the Type 3 and other advanced LSA types.NoteFirst time attendees to the meetup should arrive at least 15 minutes earlier in order to receive approximately 2.3 GB of study materials and set up of GNS3.

  • OSPF basics - setup and LSA types - City of Industry

    Thu, 3 Jun 2010, 02:00 - 04:00 in City of Industry, United States

    Giving the City of Industry Panera another shot to see if more people show up.This meetup will cover OSPF basics and we'll set up a very basic three router network. I'll also explain the differences between all the LSA types (a source of confusion for many

  • OSPF basics - Setup and LSA types

    29-30 May 2010 in Los Angeles, United States

    I'm back from Bangkok and no longer dodging sniper bullets, M-79 grenades and rockets.Now that I'm in the final stages of my CCIE studies, we'll be having 2-3 meetups a week.In this meetup, we'll cover OSPF basics and setup including the confusing LSA types.Beginners are welcome and if this is your first meetup with us, you'll be getting study materials along with GNS/router images.

  • City of Industry meetup - Router setup

    Thu, 27 May 2010, 02:00 - 04:00 in City of Industry, United States

    I'm back from Bangkok and no longer dodging sniper bullets, M-79 grenades and rockets.Now that I'm in the final stages of my CCIE studies, we'll start adding weeknight sessions to the mix. This is our first meetup in City of Industry. If there is a large enough turnout, then we'll have more.In this meetup, we'll cover basic router setup and best practices. Stuff like setting up passwords, the time, logins, router names, etc. Everything that you would do in real life.

  • CCNA topic: Static/default routing

    Mon, 3 May 2010, 00:00 - 02:00 in Los Angeles, United States

    In this meeting we will have a quick review of theory involved during the first 30 minutes, 1 hour and a half of labs related to these topics.Please in order to cover the topic completely , you will need to have GNS3 running. In case you are not able to have GNS3 installed and running Packet tracer could be plan B (although GNS3 is recommended).The videos posted by Humphrey could help you with the GNS3 installation, if you need further help please post a question.

  • Frame Relay

    Thu, 22 Apr 2010, 01:00 - 03:00 in Los Angeles, United States

    We will try to keep the group active while Humphrey is on his study-trip abroad.In this meetup we will cover theory about Frame Relay and lab configurations of FR point to point sub-interfaces and multipoint interfaces.

  • IP Services - NAT/DHCP/etc

    Sun, 14 Mar 2010, 00:00 - 02:00 in Pasadena, United States

    In this meetup, we'll be covering misc. ip services like nat, DHCP, time protocol and others if we have time.These are services that you should be very familiar with and not just from a Cisco perspective.We'll also have brand new learning materials for distribution.Please set up and save Practice topology 0 for this session

  • OSPF Meeting #2

    Sun, 7 Mar 2010, 00:00 - 02:00 in Pasadena, United States

    OSPF meeting #2 - We'll add more loopbacks and go over cost, more router-ids and routing logic.

  • OSPF Meeting #1

    Sun, 28 Feb 2010, 00:00 - 02:00 in Pasadena, United States

    Our first meeting about OSPF!We will configure a four router network with single area OSPF and we will troubleshoot various entry-level issues.For all the new members of the group, please view the introductory videos on our YouTube channel and also read the FAQ in the Meetup files section.

  • CCIE candidates meet and greet

    Mon, 22 Feb 2010, 00:00 - 02:00 in Downey, United States

    We've amassed a huge collection of PDFs and other study material since our last CCIE meet and greet, so it's time to have another one.If you are a CCNP and are planning to take your written or lab sometime this year, then this meeting will be with you. Talk with other candidates and share study tips and materials (the stuff that you're able to share).I'll show off some of the stuff I've recently purchased... and there's quite a bit of it.

  • EIGRP theory and configuration

    Sun, 21 Feb 2010, 00:00 - 02:00 in Pasadena, United States

    Ahh EIGRP, some people love it, some people hate it, but whatever your feelings... it's a topic on Cisco tests. In this meetup, we'll cover the theory and configuration of this proprietary protocol.A note to the members, many of the questions asked in our meetups are answered simply by watching the videos in the YouTube channel. While I try my best to help you out during the meetings, you will get much value if you study and watch the YouTube videos before the meetings.

  • Dynamic Routing - RIP

    Sun, 7 Feb 2010, 00:00 - 02:00 in Pasadena, United States

    We've spent enough time on default and static routing, now we will get into our first dynamic routing protocol, RIP.Our practice topology will go from two to three routers. It is in the files section.

  • Static and Default routing - West Covina

    Mon, 11 Jan 2010, 00:00 - 02:00 in West Covina, United States

    Let's do some routing!We'll take our practice topology of two routers and two loopbacks and get full connectivity. Go to our YouTube page if you want to practice before the meeting.Since our meetings are getting quite large, January meetings will be split between Saturday and Sundays. You can attend either one for the week. Please note that the Sunday meeting is in West Covina. Saturdays remain in Pasadena.

  • Static and Default routing - Pasadena

    Sun, 10 Jan 2010, 00:00 - 02:00 in Pasadena, United States

    Let's do some routing!We'll take our practice topology of two routers and two loopbacks and get full connectivity. Go to our YouTube page if you want to practice before the meeting.Since our meetings are getting quite large, January meetings will be split between Saturday and Sundays. You can attend either one for the week. Please note that the Sunday meeting is in West Covina. Saturdays remain in Pasadena.

  • A little bit of QoS

    Mon, 7 Dec 2009, 00:00 - 02:00 in West Covina, United States

    This is an advanced meeting. So far we've learned how to make packets get to their destinations quickly, but in this meetup we purposely slow things down a bit. We'll cover queuing policing policy and class-maps (oh fun and joy) See you there!

  • CCNA Meetup - Basic concepts and static/default routing

    Sun, 6 Dec 2009, 00:00 - 02:00 in Pasadena, United States

    Our first real meeting of the new CCNA group will be this upcoming Saturday. We'll be meeting at the Panera Bread in Pasadena and this will probably be our regular meeting place for this particular group. There are plenty of seats and outlets (but still make sure your laptops are fully charged because you never know). If you missed our introduction meeting, don't worry. You can still come to this meeting.

  • Route redistribute hands-on

    22-23 Nov 2009 in West Covina, United States

    Route redistribution doesn't have to be hard and in this meetup we'll tackle a lab where we'll through rip into ospf, ospf into bgp and bgp into eigrp - and the other way around too! Learn the pitfalls of redistribution like routing loops, screwed up metrics and weird default behaviors.

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